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This article explores the use of wikis in the literacy classroom. A discussion of the need for using new technologies such as these, an evaluation of wikis in regards to technology standards, example student wikis, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of wikis in the English classroom are provided throughout the article. Article Review: Sherry Sanden and Janine Darragh’s article “Wiki Use in the 21st-Century Literacy Classroom: A Framework for Evaluation” explores the use and effectiveness of wikis in the English Language Arts classroom. In the beginning of the article, the authors provide an argument detailing the connections between wikis and the technology requirements provided by the National Council of Teachers of English. The basis of this argument is that wikis adhere to the NCTE’s Position Statement (2008) promoting the use of new technologies that are “multiple, dynamic, and …show more content…

In addition to the potential for this global interaction, wikis also allow students to create multi-media documents by adding text, video, audio, hyperlinks, and images into one document. Due to their digital nature, students can access their wikis from virtually anywhere they can receive at least a 4G connection, making them much more accessible than the traditional word processing document. Wikis also track contributions by name, date, and time, which provides extra assessment opportunities for teachers, as well as

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As technology grow and increasingly gets bigger and and better people are finding new ways to harness that information and use it to their advantage and learn from it. Clive Thompson suggests that technology is even helping literacy and this young generation. He states that “Young people write far more than any generation before them”(Source 7). You can thank Twitter and Facebook for the mass amount of posts and writing from teens. Thompson followingly says that “students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos - addressing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.(Source 7)

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Next, he supports his claim by addressing how writing changes an individual’s cognitive behavior and the cognitive effort generating text does to one’s memory. Thompson finally introduces the impact of the theory of multiples. In my analysis of Thompson’s text, I will examine, analyze and evaluate his central claims and the evidence he uses to support these claims to prove that the internet has helped us as writers. Thompson’s purpose is to persuade the audience that the internet is a central part of learning in order to improve the quality of

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According to Nicholas Carr, the author of the article Is Google Making Us Stupid?, “Research that once required days” is able to be “done in minutes.”. This demonstrates how through the presence of the net, users are able to complete the same tasks in a significantly less amount of time than what it would have taken them previously. Personally, through the decrease in time needed to perform research, I am able to have more free time, where I can access social media. According to the article Clive Thompson On The New Literacy written by Clive Thompson, “young people today write far more than any generation before them” due to “life writing” a result of social media, such as “Twitter”. This is crucial to consider because of the “14,672 student writing samples” Thompson collected from her students, “38 percent” of them “took place out of the classroom”.

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Although, the internet actually brings numerous advantages to its users. It has a wide advantage in the education system. In the Pew survey, which was done in conjunction with the College Board and the National Writing Project, roughly 75 percent of 2,462 teachers surveyed said that the Internet and search engines had a “mostly positive” impact on student research skills. And they said such tools had made students more self-sufficient researchers (Richtel). Many teachers said that the Internet could be a useful in education for enhancing the student’s ability to make research and explore.

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Using these ‘cool’ technologies are great vehicles for teaching kids the proper ways to communicate” (Tomaszewski). This quote communicates the benefits that technology brings to the students. I both agree and disagree with the thought that technology does not always have a downfall because at times it can help students be successful. An example of this is when teachers assign research papers as a school project.

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Sawchuk, S. (2012). Many Teachers Not Ready for the Common Core. Education Digest, 16-22. http://proxy.ashland.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eft&AN=82981829&site=ehost-live Beginning this research I stumbled on this article which discusses the successful implementation of the Common Core Standards.

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Michelle Thezin Kong 25233914 Section 103 Annotated Bibliography Resource 1: Literature Review Dibble A, Miller N, Hinds J, and Fryday A. 2009. Lichens and bryophytes of the alpine and subalpine zones of Katahdin, Maine, I: Overview, ecology, climate and conservation aspects. The Bryologist 112(4): 651-672. Maine’s tallest peak, Katahdin, is covered by vast amount of the alpine and subalpine ecosystem and vegetation. The region contains a variety of bryophytes and lichen that have been around since the mid-1800s and for about 16 days from 2001 to 2004, researchers have been surveying the lichens and bryophytes of the area.

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When students first start learning to read they must learn the shapes of the alphabet, the sounds they make, and many more iterative steps that develops a student 's proficiency in the traditional form of literacy. With the development of technology teachers are given more tools to teach students. In order for teachers to use these new tools properly they must know how to wield them properly. Websites, Wikis, Social media, podcasts, and video making are great ways of instructing students. While the old literacies are similar to the new literacies, new literacies take the building blocks of the old and use them in a different way.

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Type of Article Dobmeier R. A. & Reiner S. M. (2012). Spirituality in the counselor education curriculum: A national survey of student perceptions. Counseling and Values, Apr 2012 57 (1) 47. Type of Research

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Over the period, Internet usage has seen tremendous growth. The number of Internet users across the world increased from 394 million to 1.858 billion. By 2010, 22 percent of the world's population had access to computers with 1 billion Google searches every day, 300 million Internet users reading blogs, and 2 billion videos viewed daily on YouTube – Refer Fig 1.1 source International telecommunication union. India stands third biggest nation in internet usage, with high social & mobile audience.

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Technology connects people more together on the topic of writing and critiquing. Publishing works online will give you the most unbiased comments about how internet users feel about your writing. There are an abundance of teachers who promote students to publish their work on the web such as Diane Davis, a professor of rhetoric at Iowa. In the article she emphasizes that, “publishing her students’ work online improves their writing at all stages” (140). The internet plays a big role and I do not see this tool going anywhere anytime soon.

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Academics in Sydney, Australia are starting to take a more serious look at Wikipedia. They've learned that students in higher education are simply not interested in the traditional way of learning and have embarked on an adventure to let their university students write and edit article on Wikipedia. This is a learning experience for the students and the lecturers at the University of Sydney. Students write articles and they look at the feedback presented by others that read their articles. This is a way for students in academic writing courses to receive feedback from peers, teachers, and others from around the world.

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Users are able to create word clouds, term or topic wheels, and storyboards with classmates or peers or share those documents using social media or email. What’s more, the images can be downloaded and saved on a computer or other device to be used later in other documents or text. Because of this feature, Text is Beautiful can be used for collaborative learning exercises in order to provide students the occasion to become more deeply engaged with reading, writing, and with one another. Furthermore, because using technology allows students to become active in the learning, using Text is Beautiful is an excellent way to allow them to collaborate with other students to further enhance the learning

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Based on the book namely “The purpose writer: A rhetoric with reading by Dorina Gorell on the year 1991. The author explains that students take notes as a record of their learning. The author posits that putting data on a sheet of paper serves as their strategy to control with the lesson. Wikipedia is an expensive communal supply and in a classroom surrounding, students absorb how to provide for it and how to use it appropriately. Therefore, as the use of technology

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It is a concern among university as it may affect the information quality used by students to complete their assignments and class exercises. University students are a group of adolescent that used Internet every single day for academic and leisure purposes. They also have the unlimited access to use the Internet. University students also among the highest internet user, thus, they also might using Wikipedia for their academic purposes. Sanger (2005) has a different view of Wikipedia where he stated that it is a fantastic project where it has produces enormous amounts of content and thousands of excellent articles and now it getting high-profile.

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